Ian Mayes
Ian Mayes is a British journalist and editor. He was the first "readers' editor" – a title he invented for the newspaper ombudsman role[1] — of The Guardian, from November 1997 to March 2007,[2][3] and was president of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen from May 2005 to May 2007,[2][4] serving as a board member since May 2002[5] after joining in April 2001.[6]
His first ten years at The Guardian included launching The Guardian Weekend magazine and daily G2 section with current editor Alan Rusbridger, and time as deputy features editor, arts editor and obituaries editor. He is currently writing the third volume of the official history of The Guardian.[7][3]
He is credited with the discovery of the "apostrofly", "an insect which lands at random on the printed page depositing an apostrophe wherever it alights".[8][9] He has also been honored by the creation in 2008 of the The Ian Mayes Award for Writing Wrongs.[10][11]
Works
- Journalism Right and Wrong: Ethical and Other Issues Raised by Readers in the "Guardian's" Open Door Column (Guardian Books, February 2007) ISBN 978-0-00-719667-8
- Only Correct, The Best of Corrections and Clarifications (Guardian Books, 2005) ISBN 978-1-84354-465-4
- Corrections and Clarifications 2002 (Atlantic Books, 2002) ISBN 978-1-84354-173-8
- Corrections and Clarifications (Fourth Estate, 2000) ISBN 978-1-84115-608-8, and (Guardian Books, 2000) ISBN 978-1-84115-603-3
References
- ↑ "Democracy, media and (cyber) ombudsmen", Organization of news Ombudsmen (ONO), 21 September 2010.
- 1 2 Ian Mayes, "Open Door", The Guardian, 6 November 2006.
- 1 2 Ian Mayes, "Open Door", The Guardian, 2 April 2007.
- ↑ ONO's Members Organization of News Ombudsmen
- ↑ Ian Mayes, "Open Door: Word abroad", The Guardian, 11 May 2002.
- ↑ Ian Mayes, "Open Door: Ono? Oh, yes", The Guardian, 27 April 2001.
- ↑ "Writing wrongs: Guardian readers' editor Ian Mayes", Press Gazette, 12 January 2007.
- ↑ Ian Mayes, "It's in its rightful place", The Guardian, 30 September 2002.
- ↑ Ian Mayes, "The return of the apostrofly", The Guardian, 4 December 2004.
- ↑ Craig Silverman, "The Year in Errata", Colombia Journalism Review, 19 December 2008.
- ↑ Craig Silverman, Crunks 2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections, RegretTheError.com
External links
- Ian Mayes page at The Guardian
- Readers' Editor of The Guardian includes his Open Door column archives
- "Corrections and Clarifications" column in The Guardian
- Works by or about Ian Mayes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Ian Mayes, "Trust me, I'm an ombudsman", The British Journalism Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2004, pp. 65-70.
- Organisation of News Ombudsmen official site
- Ian Mayes, "The return of the apostrofly" (a brief history of the apostrofly), The Guardian, 4 December 2004
- "Recursive link to this Wiki article on Ian Mayes" in The Guardian, 6 August 2005
- "Writing wrongs: Guardian readers' editor Ian Mayes", Press Gazette, 12 January 2007.
- "Guardian readers' editor Ian Mayes talks to PG", Press Gazette, 5 January 2007.